Korean J Med.  2000 Oct;59(4):452-456.

A case of primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the lung

• An JH
• Ryu SH
• Yun SM
• Park SS
• Lee MK
• Park SK

Abstract

Malignant fibrous histiocytoma(MFH) is a high grade soft tissue sarcoma, commonly occur in the retroperitoneum, extremities, head and neck in the patient with old ages. But it is very uncommon that MFH primarily occurs in the lung, and uncommon in young ages. We experienced a young male patient with primary MFH of the lung. The patient had huge masses on both lungs which were diagnosed as MFH by thoracoscopy-guided wedge resection of mass, so we could not perform operative management. And we tried 6 cycles of chemotherapy using ifosfamide, doxorubicin, dacarbazine. After chemotherapy, masses still remained in spite of decreasing sizes.

Keyword

Histiocytoma; Fibrous; Lung; Thoracoscopy

MeSH Terms

Dacarbazine
Doxorubicin
Drug Therapy
Extremities
Head
Histiocytoma
Histiocytoma, Malignant Fibrous*
Humans
Ifosfamide
Lung*
Male
Neck
Sarcoma
Thoracoscopy
Dacarbazine
Doxorubicin
Ifosfamide